We had another amazing day in the Woodlands as part of our SWAN: Under our Wing Peer Mentoring Programme. This time we brought the mentor & the mentee groups together for a day of crafting, bushcraft & team building activities. A big thank you to Craig, of Operation Play Outdoors, our trainer, and to The Forestry Commission Scotland for ongoing support. Our day was described by one of our group as "magical mentoring". rony@swan ...

Former staff of the school are seeking judicial reviews of the decisions by the Care Inspectorate to impose an Improvement Notice on the school, and the demands made by the Registrar of Independent School in a letter to the Chairmen of Governors in November 2018. Given that their actions led to the

We've been having some very interesting chat around possible overlaps with ADHD and autism - so many of us with an autism diagnosis or who identify as autistic, seem to relate to descriptions of ADHD too. Cat@Swan ...

Even though I got my ADHD diagnosis at a very young age, as an adult, aside from my medication and a 6 month doctors appointment, I get absolutely nothing in the way of support.

ADHD is still perceived as something that only affects kids, and a lot of people out there still don’t even believe it exists, that it is the result of “poor parenting”, “lack of discipline”, etc etc.

Without my medication, I’m literally useless, I can’t get anything done, I can’t focus, I can’t sit still, I cannot concentrate at all, even simple things like making food become an extremely demanding and mentally challenging task.